NASA designs ape-like robot for disasters

[caption id="attachment_101" align="alignright" width="362"] The RoboSimian disaster-response robot has four limbs, seven cameras and a LiDAR system[/caption]

When we imagine the robots of the future, they often look and move like humans, standing up on two legs and using a pair of arms to grab and move objects. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratoryis working on a different kind of robot for disaster response that's designed to move like an ape.

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